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We now offer our courses through our subscription service The Great Courses Plus via our apps and website which gives you access to over 300 hundred courses. Now you can easily sample courses and find the ones that best scratch your intellectual itch. You can learn about Medicine on Monday, Tai Chi on Tuesday, and What Einstein Got Wrong on Wednesday.

You can try The Great Courses Plus for FREE by subscribing through one of the apps below.

NOTE: You have been re-directed to our United Kingdom website to meet European Union regulations. You can access your courses and account information here using the same Email Address and Password that you have always used.

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What are priority codes?

Priority Codes are on the back of the catalog, mail promotion, or within an advertisement. To ensure that the pricing on the website is the same as what is in your catalog or advertisement, please enter the priority code provided.

About The Great Courses

The Great Courses are uniquely crafted for lifelong learners like you, with engaging, immersive learning experiences you can’t get in a lecture hall.

The secret ingredient is YOU. Our customers are involved at every step of the process, helping to choose course subjects and select professors from the thousands we screen each year.

The course creation process that follows involves so much more than just placing a camera in the back of a classroom. We surround the world’s greatest teachers with a team of experts who collaborate on crafting a customized and entertaining educational journey that’s both comprehensive and fascinating.

What you don’t get are the trappings of a university that you no longer need or want. There are no exams. No homework assignments. No prerequisites. You can choose the format that fits your life: video or audio, discs or digital. Watch on a TV, laptop, or tablet while taking notes in the free companion guidebook. Listen on your mobile device while going about your day.

From concept, to development, to custom content & visual design, each of The Great Courses is an unparalleled educational experience designed with people like you in mind.

Not since my own dissertation defense had I felt “tested” in the way I was by The Great Courses test lectures. That they were willing to devote such time, money, and resources to vetting lecturers made clear the company’s commitment to producing the highest quality courses. The emphasis on quality was just as clear in every later stage of production, from the editorial feedback to the preparation of the visual aids and the meticulous way in which the taping was done, with every syllable being checked and double checked, and every “fix” reviewed two or three times.

Turning a college classroom course into a Great Course is an awesome experience. Nothing hones a course better than having to shape it into a disciplined experience with the advice and guidance of the Great Courses experts. The course becomes clearer. The experience vastly improves your teaching when you carry it back to the classroom and make all your classroom courses better.